Mauve Moments with Orlando Plumbe

Hmmm

Link: Literary Warrior. Quoting novelist Mark Helprin.

“The avant-garde are frauds,” he bluntly declares. “Modern literature is all cool and detached, even though a lot of modern writers are passionate about their politics. To me, passion should be for literature, and reason and detachment for politics.

Profile of Linguist Who Is Framing Issues for the Democrats

Link: 'NY Times' Sunday Preview: Profile of Linguist Who Is Framing Issues for the Democrats.

But Luntz tells Bai that the problem with Lakoff's ideology is that if an idea is bad, no language can make it sellable. “He's one of the very few guys who understands the limits of liberal language,” Luntz says . “What he doesn't understand is that there are also limits on liberal philosophy. They think that if they change all the words, it'll make a difference. Won't happen.” Other Republicans simply see Lakoff as a deeply desired messiah for the left. Some liberals ridicule Lakoff as what Bai called a "new progressive icon." In the April issue of The Atlantic, contributing editor Marc Cooper wrote that Lakoff sees the American people as, “Red-neck, chain-smoking, baby-slapping Christers desperately in need of some gender-free nurturing and political counseling by organic-gardening enthusiasts from Berkeley.”